Thursday, February 19, 2009































Location ActivityGoogle Earth Content
1. Nauvoo, Illinois
Show picture of Nauvoo in old days and compare with today
Look up modern Nauvoo
2. Winter Quarters, Nebraska
Measure distance from Nauvoo to Winter Quarters
Follow the trail from Nauvoo to Winter Quarters
3.Martin's Cove, Wyoming
Ask them how difficult it would be to pull wagons and handcarts across the terrain at Martin's Cove
Look up Martin's Cove and notice the mountains and hills
4. Salt Lake City, Utah
Measure the distance from Nauvoo to Salt Lake
Follow the trail from Nauvoo to Salt Lake City. That's like walking to disneyland and back
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Storyboard


Here is our story board for our story!! Thanks!!

The content we will be using in our lesson is a poem called "The Aliens have landed" by Ken Nesbitt.
The pedagogy we will be using is reading aloud. Because we are learning about rhymes in this unit, this is the ideal way to to teach because they will be able to hear the rhyming.
The technology we will be using is the digital storybook program. This will enhance the lesson because the children will be able to listen to the story and see the funny pictures as many times as they need.

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

TPAC questions

The content we are focusing on our lesson plan is showing the difference between celsius and fahrenheit. The pedagogy we used was a specific science experiment that was hands on. The instruction was hands on. The technology we used was a temperature probe and a mac computer. They were very helpful in the instruction and pedagogy. The whole lesson was made around the temperature probe and computer... so they were very crucial to the success of the lesson.

The Tech Savvy Teacher

Temperature Time


The 4th grade class of Ward Elementary decided to figure out what the difference in Fahrenheit and Celsius is. To do this we first filled a water bottle with cold water from the water fountain. Then we measured the temperature by placing the temperature probe in the water for 60 seconds. Our temperature probe was connected to our computer and the information that the probe collected was input to the computer program. The computer program then told us the temperature of the water in both Fahrenheit and Celsius. The temperature of the water was 13.5º Celsius and 56.2º Fahrenheit.


Second, we filled the water bottle with hot water and measured the temperature of the water for 60 seconds. This time the water measured 46º Celsius and 102º Fahrenheit. Once we collected our data it was time to calculate the difference between Fahrenheit and Celsius! To do this, we created a table and subtracted the Celsius degrees from the Fahrenheit degrees for each example.


ITEM

DEGREE CELSIUS

DEGREES FAHERENHEIT

DIFFERENCE

Cold Water

13.5 º

56.2º

42.7 º

Hot Water

46º

102º

66 º





After doing our math we came to the conclusion that the difference between Fahrenheit and Celsius for the first example was 42.7 º Celsius and 66 º Fahrenheit. Obviously the difference between Fahrenheit and Celsius is dependent on high or low the temperature is. Come back next week to find out the conversion formula!



Screen shot of the temperature analysis



Mindy, Tausha and Emilie analyzing the data for the temperatures.



The water being analyzed

Looking studious while noticing the the temperature changes

Tausha and Mindy with the temperature probe

Just Mindy with the temperature probe before we stuck it in the water.